The Rise and Rise of Software Patents

Dean Povey writes "LinuxJournal has a great article on the plethora of bogus software patents and their possible effects on the Open Source community." This isn't "new" news (it was published Aug. 10), and a lot has aleady been written on the subject, but this is one of the most thoughtful articles I've seen about software patents, and their effects on Linux and free software development in general.